While I may not know how to do this (or want to), I do know how to find out. One is by searching this site like this and another is to google Win32::OLE OUTLOOK. Both methods are covered in How to RTFM, along with other invluable perl resources (I really like and promote this great guide a lot. Heck, with its help there is very little I can't do).

I came up with many many promising links, like Re: Win32::Daemon and Outlook, Send email (and attachments) with Outlook, Using Perl to look in Outlook public folders.. which, along with the Win32::OLE pod should explain how to use Win32::OLE. Now you should google microsoft.com to figure out how to get Outlook to do what you want it to do through OLE, and translate that into some perl source code.

Check out http://www.execpc.com/~dg/tutorial/howmapi/howmapi.htm, after which you ought to be able to come up with some perl code to do this.

If run into any snags, just go ahead and post it here and i'm sure someone will be able to help you. (I dont' have outlook, otherwise I might try to do it)

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In reply to Re: Automating Dialup and fetching of e-mail/webpages with Windows 2000/Outlook by PodMaster
in thread Automating Dialup and fetching of e-mail/webpages with Windows 2000/Outlook by Banky

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